Iberia considering consolidation in face of low-cost competition

Iberia will bow to pressure from LCCs and begin to eliminate routes that do not pass through Madrid, MD Angel Mullor told Iberiavion. "These will be routes which only low-cost companies are going to be able to operate," he said, according to Reuters. "They have already thrown us out of six routes from Barcelona, and now in serious danger are our routes, for example, from Galicia to England where easyJet or Ryanair have started and we can't compete with them." He said domestic traffic also ...